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B02897 The declaration of several eminent Roman Catholicks in this kingdom of England, who did embrace the Protestant religion, with their reasons for their change deliver'd in their words, at their embracing the Protestant religion. To which is added a catalogue of sundry great persons of the Roman-Catholick religion, that are now turned to the true Protestant-religion of the Church of England. 1688 (1688) Wing D617A; ESTC R176402 4,969 10

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THE DECLARATION Of several Eminent Roman Catholicks In this KINGDOM of ENGLAND Who did Embrace the Protestant Religion With their Reasons for their Change deliver'd in their own Words at their Embracing the Protestant Religion To which is Added A Catalogue of sundry great Persons of the Roman-Catholick Religion that are now turned to the true Protestant-Religion of the Church of England Licensed LONDON Printed for R. B. 1688. The Declaration of several Eminent Roman Catholicks in this Kingdom of England who did Embrace the Protestant Religion with their Reasons for their Change deliver'd in their own Words c. THey that will derive the Goodness or Truth of a Religion from the Proselytes which it makes ought to consider the Equality of the Persons and the End of their Conversion For what signifies the Turning of half a score Persons to the Romish Religion though their Number should be trebled where for one that submits his misguided Reason ten are deluded by their Passions or follow the Current of the Times Allur'd by private Hopes and the Arguments of Self-Interest Of this Number was Peter Espinal Archbishop of Lyons who having embraced the Doctrine of the Protestants in his younger years afterwards chang'd his Opinion and became an inveterate Prosecutor of the Reformed Thuan. l. 8● 122. but it was not his Zeal that made him so furious but his eager Ambition of a Cardinals Cap to which he sacrific'd his otherwise great Learning and Parts Nor was this all for having wasted his own Demeans to run in Debt he knew no other way to supply his luxurious Extravagance than by siding with the Guisian or Henotic Faction At the same time not only a Turncoat from his Religion but a Rebel to his Prince The next to him we find Francis Balduinus who having embrac'd the Protestant Religion in Germany Thuan. l. 53.57 at length return'd to the Romish perswasion upon the fair hopes he had of being preferr'd in Poland by Henry the Third afterwards King of France had he not been prevented by Death These were Men of great Parts and Learning and that we see how their Hopes and their Fears betray'd them But we are now to give a Particular Account of several Persons of no less Grandeur and Learn●ng that being before Devout Sons of Popery abandon'd the Ceremonies of Rome and making choice of the Protestant profession at the same time that they might not be tax'd of Inconstancy or Worldly Drifts published the true Reasons of their Coversion We shall begin with Annus Burgus a Senator of Paris at first only suspected to favour the Protestants was by Henry the Second of France sent to the Bastile at which time being declar'd a Heretick by his Judges he appeal'd to the Archbishop of Sens which Appeal being judged frivolous he was sent back to the Bishop of Paris by whom being then degraded from his Sacerdotal Character he then made open profession of the Protestant Religion testifying his joy for the kindness they had done him for that the Character of the Beast being now as he said defac'd he should have nothing more to do with Antichrist and that there might be no question of his Conversion he removed his first Confession as ambiguous and gave into Court another more clearly agreeing with the Doctrine of Geneva and Switzerland wherein after he had sharply enveighed against the Pope and the Ceremonies of Rome he declar'd himself prepar'd either to live or dye for which at last he was adjudged to be Burnt which Sentence as he heard with an undaunted Courage so at the Stake he gave the People to understand that he did not come there to suffer as a Malefactor but for adhering to the truth of the Gospel his Death was deplor'd by many that thought ill of his Conversion However says the Historian it partly so confirm'd the minds of some that had forsaken the Religion and likewise so exasperated others as it may be truly said that out of his Ashes sprung that prodigious harvest of Revolts and Conspiracies Thuan. l. 22.23 which afterwards for so long time harras'd a most flourishing Kingdom And the Author of the Council of Trent makes this Remark upon him Counc of Trent l. 5. That the Death and Constancy of a Person so Conspicuous waken'd a Curiosity in many to understand what that Religion should be for which so great a Man had suffer'd so Couragiously and complains that it much encreas'd the number of Protestant Proselytes Garsias Arias a Spaniard and Monk of the Monastery of St. Isidore in Sevil a Person of an acute Wit and rare Learning of a rigid Roman Catholick became a Preacher of the Reformed Religion even under the nose of the Inquisition in so much that Philip the 2d returning into Spain was much amaz'd to hear that the Reformed Religion was crept into his Most Catholick Dominions At first Garsias was too hard for the Inquisitors still baffling their Objections by the smartness of his Arguments But being at length Conv en'd before them upon surer Evidence he plainly shew'd that it was not out of Self-Interest but out of a real Convincement that he was in an Error before that he had abandoned the Popish Religion else he would never have so boldly Confronted the Cruel Tribunal as to tell them They were fitter for the vile Drudgery of Ostlers Thuan. l. 23. than to assume themselves to be the Censurers of a Faith which they so little understood declaring at the same time his hearty Repentance for having formerly so ●ppos'd the Maintainers of that Faith before them and for which he should always be sorry as long as he had whereupon ha● was forthwith Condemn'd and soon after led in Triumph to F●re and ●aggot and Burnt alive Wolfangus ●●scabus was also in his younger years a Monk till better Information made him forsake the Ceremonies of the Romish Church and adhe●r to the Protestant Religion of which he afterwards became a most painful and Famous Preacher to his dying day Melchior Roman a Spaniard and once Procurator of the Order of the Jacobins at Rome for the Prov●nce of Tholouse having at last deserted the Church of Rome made a publick Declaration of his Conversion in the Reformed Church of Bergeral in the year 1600. wherein he gives an ample account of the Reasons which induc'd him to change his Religion to this effect His first Exception is That the Consecrated Sacrament should be subject to the eating of Mice and Rats he alledges that he saw at Lymoges in the Convent of the Jacobins an infinite number of Consecrated Sacrifices eaten with Rats and Worms Attested by Volaterranus l. 5. Georg. and all wrapt about with Cobwebbs He relates how Gregory the Seventh having consulted the Sacrament touching the Revealing of certain matters against the Emperour and receiving no answer threw it into the Fire He adds that Victor the Third a Bishop of Ebora and the Emperor Henry the 7th were